Sentences with phrase «when plucked»

The guitar string will vibrate when plucked, the twine won't.

When plucked, the string vibrates for minutes with a period of a microsecond (equivalent to a standard guitar note playing for a month).

«In rescuing these vulnerable turtles, which literally are on the verge of death when plucked from the surf, we reinforce our commitment to protecting all the wildlife of the Commonwealth, including its coastal waters, for the benefit of people today as well as future generations.

Seemed like a tremendous hire when they plucked her from Duquesne.

They're seeds, and when plucked off a plant they're covered by a pulpy red cherry.

I had done a very successful afternoon talk show in Canada called The Alan Thicke Show, and then when they plucked me to be on TV in the States, they changed it to a nighttime show.

It happens to other people whenever they look at a bright light or toward the sun, or even when they pluck their eyebrows or have sex.

There may be some crying, especially when you pluck your little one out of the warm water.

The joy on our little one's face when she plucks her own fruits and vegetables to eat is so immense that it keeps me going with gardening no matter how busy life may be.

When we pluck all these revenue loopholes, there is no need for Ghana to go searching for loans for development projects.

In other words, what happens when you pluck BECCS from the idealized realm of global carbon accounting and plop it into a real place, with patchwork lands, messy politics, and interconnected ecological, physical, and economic systems?

There is a legend that the robin acquired its red breast when plucking the crown of thorns from Christ's brow.

People are going to look at Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada and know exactly what their getting when they pluck it off the shelves or add it to their cart.

They make a satisfying «plink» noise when you pluck»em!

Not exact matches

Do you constantly pluck hairs from your head or your face when stressed?

He was a teenager when, in 1994, military police plucked him from the streets of Asmara and transported him, by open - bed truck, to Sawa military camp.

One of them is John Carey, who was a Missouri State University student when Mozilla plucked him out of the Midwest and set him up with a free apartment nearby, along with the assignment to make a video of the behind - the - scenes work to prepare the next major version of Firefox.

When he started saving money for college, he turned to newspapers again, plucking hundreds...

But when we open our Bibles and try to make sense of one verse plucked out of context, it doesn't really make sense.

When Obama launched his presidential campaign a few years later, DuBois was plucked as its faith outreach director.

The Pharisees stood aghast when Jesus and his disciples crossed through the grain fields on the sabbath, and the disciples plucked the ears of grain and ate them.

When he let his disciples pluck and eat grain on a Sabbath, he was bypassing the leadership - approved method of obeying God.

This is what a comprehensive contextual reading of Scripture leads to, instead of having to balance apparently contradictory texts against each other when they are plucked out as «proof texts.»

Yes, Jesus was sarcastic, perhaps even cynical at times — such as when he instruct us to pluck out the wandering eyeball or cut off the offending hand — making light of the belief that sin might be removed surgically.

They complain about a grain of sand in your eye, when they really need to pluck the bolder from their own eye!

The poor could pluck grain or pick grapes when passing by a field (Deut.

Thus, says Suzuki, when Western - Christian - oriented Tennyson looked at the tiny flower in the crannied wall, first of all he plucked it.

The same confusion is shown by those who want to pluck out the tares from the field, or by the disciples when they want to call down fire from heaven on unrepentant villages, or by Judas when he too does what God has said will come to pass.

When the effigy was banned, that left the evergreens; mistletoe especially was useful, as it had berries that could be plucked after each kiss.

When you have a company, and the founder is responsible for kick - starting the sexual revolution, and then you pluck out that aspect of the company's DNA by removing the nudity, it makes a lot of people, including me, sit and say, «What the hell is the company doing?»

Maybe this is the once - in - a-lifetime moment when they have plucked up the courage to confront some grave sin from the past, or perhaps they are returning to the Church after a long absence, or they are in some other spiritual need.

What the plucked string and the dragonfly and the kingfisher do as determined by biology, or physics happens with us when Christ lives in us, Christ living the Christ way in us, in the truth of our lives, playing through our limbs and eyes to the Father.

You know the one after the time where it was in the tree tempting Eve, so I guess when it tempted Eve it looked more like a Lizard, but then afterward God plucked it's limbs off for punishment along with giving women birth pains.

You know when you are splitting open a date to pluck out that pesky oblong pit?

When buying pineapple, check for ripeness first by plucking an inner leaf from the top of the fruit.

Early chile decorations served culinary purposes — they were the ristras and wreaths made of dried red chiles that could be plucked when necessary for the Posole, another tradition Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve meals.

When cool enough to handle, pluck off tomato skins and stems and discard.

While the rice is boiling, pluck your rosemary and have it ready for when the rice is finished.

I feel more freedom to create and experiment when I've plucked something out of my backyard and not paid $ 5.00 a pound for it at the grocery store.

In literature, Shakespeare employed them as a metaphor in «Henry IV, Part I» («Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...») This «sticky» comparison comes from the plant's nature to sting when raw.

Her regular experience with coconuts involved trucks toting the fruit into the town where she lived, and others (when traveling near the coast,) involved buying them directly from children who'd plucked them from their own trees.

Come winter, when the leaves have fallen, the fruit continues to cling to the barren branches, dangling like forgotten Christmas ornaments, ripe for plucking.

Scoring so many at a time when Spurs were frequently left languishing in the middle of, or at the bottom of the table, he was plucked by Sir Alex Ferguson at the ripe old age of 31 as a replacement for Eric Cantona.

When his tongue was tied by the word «rivalry,» he blurted an expletive that rhymes with pluck.

Then on those numerous occasions when an NBA team loses a player to injury, dog bites or airsickness, a general manager can pluck a replacement from a WBA team.

When Real Madrid plucked Zidane from the touchline of their Castilla side to lead the first team after firing Rafa Benitez, many wondered if the fiery Frenchman was ready.

I know he's actually Belgian but Wenger should have plucked Hazard from Lille when he was a kid.

Even as a baby, Asya says, Max's arms were so long that when his cradle was put in the yard, he would reach out and pluck peaches from the branches of a neighbor's tree.

Based on The Guardian «s list of huge - money transfers, a # 60m move would make the 25 - year - old the seventh most expensive footballer ever, sneaking in ahead of Angel Di Maria, who went for # 59.7 m when Manchester United plucked him from Real Madrid in 2014.

As Garcia was making his swing, the gallery surrounding Woods, some 50 yards away and in the trees, cheered loudly when their man plucked a club from his bag, signaling his intent to go for the green.